The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-07-08
JEAN SAVART, TRAMP.
The Tel-Tale Handkerchief He
Picked up.
q Night in a Barn-HOw He Hid His
Treasure-A Cruel and Bloody Crime
Avenged i'm a Remarkable Manner.

Z Night in a Barn-HOw He Hid His
Treasure-A Cruel and bloody Crime
Avenged in a Remarkable Manner.
jean Savart had worked for three
years in the vineyard of Michael Prony,
near Epernay, in Champagne, France.
Whence he came nobody knew, and he
never opened his mouth on the subject.
He was not bright, but he was steady
worker and minded his own business.
One day he accidentally pushed boy
into the River Marine, and Prony grew
mad and kicked him out. Jean went
off and travelled to a small town called
La Fere. He turned down a shady lane
and went over fence to look for a
place to sleep. He pushed his way
through briers and underwood until he
reached a pathway, which he followed
up the hill Hearing footsteps behind
him, he stepped aside and crouched in
the bushes. A man and woman walked
by. talking earnestly in low tones. 1t
was too dark for Jean to see them dis
finctly. Soon after they had passed
they stopped and continued to talk.
Presently there was the bark of a
dog. Jean looked out cautiously, for
he was afraid of dogs. He saw a big
animal leaping around the man and
woman. The woman was playfully
beating him off with her handkerchief
and saying:
Down. Prince. down."
The dog came bounding toward Jean
with something white in his mouth.
He stopped within ten feet of where
jean was, and began to shake what he
had in his mouth and paw it. Then he
bounded back to the man and woman,
and Jean heard the woman say:
"What have you done with my hand
kerchicf, you wicked dog?"
There was long, shrill whistle.
The dog started off, and the man ard
woman hastily separated. the man
turning into the bush and instantly
vanishing.
Jean lay still for few minutes, then
he ventured from his hiding-place and
looked around. No one was near; not
4 sound was to be heard. Right in
front of him lay the white object which
the dog had carried in his mouth.
Jean lifted it and found it was hand
kerchief. He put it in his pocket and
walked in the direction which the
woman had taken.
When he reached the summit of the
hill, he saw house among trees. He
game to road and wall which shut
off the ground of the house from the
highway. There was huge iron gate!
jean walked toward it cautiously. He
was absut to look through the bars
when he was startled by a voice close
at hand, SAYING: What would you
have, friend?" jean involuntarily
took off his cap and turned to whence
the voice came. Then, for the first
time, he saws man leaning against
one of the stone pillars of the gate.
BY his speech Jean could tell he was y
gentleman, SO, as related, he took of
his hat and said:
Good evening. Monsieur; am a
poor traveller looking for work"
After questioning Jean further. the
gentleman said:
Come with me and I will give you
a place where you may sleep for the
night"
Jean followed the gentleman through
the gate up to the house, and into a
barn two hundred yards beyond it.
''Now," said the gentleman, .sclose
the door and be still and nothing will
harm you until the morning"
jean lay down upon heap of straw
and watched the stars, which he could
See through hole in the roof.
Presently the door opened, and two
pers"us entered. Jean was in the far
corn-r. and lay very quiet
lwouldn't have had my uncle see
yon with me tonight for any thing, -
said a woman's voice, which Jean in
stantly recognized as the one he had
heard in conversation with man an
hour before.
WELL" the man replied, .'there is
to be an end to this at once, d I'm
glad You have made up your mind TO
it"
My God"' exclaimed the woman;
''hcrc is some one coming with light.
1t is my uncle, as l live! What shall
We do?"
..Holdr' the man said. in low tone;
s'l,e may not be coming this way. He
is-neaven! here, quick! Get in be-
hind the winnowing-machine which
stands right here. Now, you rest right
there, and I'll use this opportunity.
FOR We shall never have another like
It"
A man pushed open the door. He
carried in one hand an old-fashioned
horn lantern and in the other q tin can.
He laid down the lantern and was in
the act of Strengthening himself, when
Jean saw the already described man
come out of the darkness, step up be-
hind him and plunge q knife into his